Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-01
THE PRESIDENT HAS LUCK.
He Catches Some Fine TrOut-A
Drive Across the Country.

A Saransc Lake telegram OF Monday says /:
Fortune favored the President to-day, Tor
his fishing excursions were fruitful OF fish
a. well as great incidental refreshment by
the superb mountain air. When he sat
down to breakfast with Colonel Lamont
aud DR.. RoSman il was not yet O'Clock,
and there were few of the other guests OF
the Saranac Inn in the dlning.room. The
ladies did not appear until an hour later.
Before that time the President had gone
down the lake in Dave CrOnk's cedar boat,
with bis trolling line out behind, tempting
hbe susceptible trout. Colonel Lamont,
with The guide, McCaGrey, was not
far behind the President, and DR.. Rosmln
was good third. On the way toward
"The NarrOws," about two or three miles
from the hotel. the President looked at
fifteen. FOUNDER just caught by guest OF
the hotel. and then redOubled his efforts to
catch something himself. Guided 10y Cronk
TO the best places, he at last had ga strlke.'
IL was o vigorous attack, followed bya per-
sistent struggle on the part OF the captive.
The President played his fish well and
"kiled" him in good time. Cronk's scales,
az read by their owner, made the trout
weigh six pounds. Soon after the Presi-
dent caught another siX-pOund trout, and
drifting about in the bright sunshine, he
and his party were pulled back to the hotel.
The whole party dined together at ,,
and Immediately after buckb0ardS were
driven up TO the hotS front. A par OF
seyen-the President, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.
Lamont. Mrs. ROsman, Colonel Lamont,
DIR. Rosman, and Mr.. Riddle, the host OF the
Saranac Inn were seated in the mountain
carriages with fishing rods aud satchels
aboard, aud were driven at a sashlng pace
across bill and dale seventeen miles, TO Cam
eron's Ray Brook House. The scenery
along the road WAS magnificent. Seward,
Ampersand, Mckenzie, and other noted
peaks Of the Adirondack were in the DIS.
lance, their lines clear against the blue sky.
The weather was perfect, and the
drive OF two hours was greatly en-
joyed by ali. The Ray Brook House is
IN Essex county, four miles from SaraDac
and about forty miles west OF WestpOrt, on
Lake ChamplAin. 1t Is on high bill over
looking a wide range OF country. There Is
a fine trout stream preserved here, and
the attraction 10 the President was the
promise Of sore good fly.tishlng. As soon
as he arrived he and Dave CrOnk got out
their trout-reels and went down to the
pond, quarter OF a mile away, to try his
thln anu tue attiuetiVhH VI iNu 'o'' nv
He came back at shutdown with a good
string Of speckled trout. Colonel Lamont
and the other gentlemen also had good
luck.
The evening was given up to rest and 10
eombats with the mosquitoes, which the
smudees would not drive away. There
will be more trout-fshlng in the morning
and return TO Saransc Inn laterfn the
day.
The President passed through Saranac
Lake Village to-day just in time to see the
last of the pecoration-Day celebration, the
Suspended flags in the main street, the
marching OF veterans Of the Grand Army,
and the throDgs OF villagers on their way to
the pine grove, where $50 people sat down
to dinner. The President drove by the
oelebrators, all Of whom were delighted
with an unexpected sight OF Mr.. Cleveland.